Paying from the US

Last updated: October 2026

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Buy a DL Gift Card — recommended

Visa, Mastercard and Amex are not offered at DLsite's checkout. This is not a problem with your card — retyping the number will not help. For Books, DLsite's official partner store, does take them, so you buy a gift card there and redeem it for points.

Log in to DLsite and open My Page → Purchase Points.
Click Other credit cards. This opens For Books, DLsite's official gift card store.
Choose an amount: 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, 5,000 or 10,000 points (1 point = ¥1).
Click Add to cart → Check out.
Sign in or create a free For Books account. This is separate from your DLsite account.
Pay with Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
Wait for the serial code email (it can take a few hours).
On DLsite, go to My Page → Enter Serial Code and redeem it.
Buy your game or comic using points.

Buy slightly more points than the price. Prices are in yen and your card sets its own conversion rate.

Holding a JCB card? You can skip all of this →

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Pay with a JCB card

Nothing to set up. Pay at DLsite's checkout and the download is yours straight away — no points, no second account, no waiting for an email.

Visa, Mastercard and American Express have been unavailable for direct purchases on DLsite since April 2024.

Before you buy

You need a For Books account to check out. It is free, and separate from your DLsite login.
Allow emails from @forbooks.jp and @sendowl.com, or the code may land in spam.
Double-check your email address. Typos are the most common reason codes never arrive.
One gift card per order. Place separate orders for multiple cards.
Redeem within 6 months. Unused codes expire.
Points expire one year after your last point activity.
No refunds on gift cards, so buy only what you need.
Some works are region-locked and cannot be bought from the US. Check that the Buy button appears before buying points.

What you actually get

The English text is not a separate product on most of this shelf. The thing worth checking per work is whether Japanese ships in the same purchase. Most do. Some are English only.

What	How many	Why it matters
Works listed here	282	Every one of them has an English edition on DLsite.
Japanese in the same product	275	7 are English only. Read the language line on the work before you buy.
With a trial	134	Look for the trial row on the work.
Under 1,000 yen	136	Convenience-store prepayment starts at 1,000 yen, so these can fall below the floor.

These figures are counted from the ledger every time the page is built. Nothing here is typed by hand, so it does not go stale as works are added.

A date beside the price means a sale is running; no date means it is the list price.

Doujin games that have an English build →